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Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Maarten Oldenhof

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Automotive Navigation Data (AND) CEO Maarten Odelhof about the state of commercial geodata, the licensing challenges and the role the community can play in keeping data up-to-date. This is the third in a series of intervi...Read more

ESRI Keywords: Authoritative Data, Generic Services

Wyatt Kash, editor in chief at Government Computer News was on the questioning side of the latest interviewwith ESRI's Jack Dangermond. Dangermond highlights the differences between Google Earth-based Virtual Alabama and ESRI-based Virginia Inter...Read more

Junaio: Mobile Social 3D Editable Augmented Reality App

Metaio Augmented Reality Solutions is behind the Junaio iPhone app which will launch soon. RWW has the preview of the app which allows users to add, edit and animate 3D objects within the phone's view of reality. Then, those photos, for example can b...Read more

iPhone augmented reality parked car finder

I'm thinking Car Finder will be many people's first augmented reality app purchase. For 99 cents you get an app that allows you to "save the location" of your car into your iPhone. Then, when it's time to leave the concert or mall, you pop open your ...Read more

Garmin: Sitting on Hands or Smart Like a Fox?

GPS Business News asks if Garmin is sitting on its hands after Google's announcement of free navigation for Android. Alas the article is behind a wall, but the question is a good one. (And I'm sure the analysis is, too.) But I have only public sou...Read more

Entergy Offers up Property Locator for Texas

Entergy Texas Inc. has decided to lend a hand -- and possibly attract new customers of its own -- by launching a Web site specifically designed to help companies find commercial and industrial real estate in the region. I was sure the site, Texas ...Read more

Eight Year Old Voter Assignment Error to be Explored Using GIS

The error, found only this week, seems to date back 2001, when precincts in Scott County, Iowa were drawn by hand. This was apparently the first time a voter was turned away from the expected voting location to another. 39 individuals were mis-assign...Read more

GeoEye Satellites Dodging Space Junk

Here are the stats, shared by William Schuster, the companys chief operating officer, at the Strategic Space Symposium held Tuesday in Omaha, Nebaraska. The company has had to move the 10-year-old Ikonos satellite seven times to avoid space junk....Read more

Google and TomTom Execs Address Google Navigation for Android

I dug this up in The Boston Globe writer Hiawatha Bray's overview of the Droid (which he says is cool, but no iPhone killer) and its free navigation app: During a visit to Cambridge yesterday, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was unapologetic. G...Read more

AOL's Patch - Now with OSM (not MapQuest) Maps

AOL acquired hyperlocal news site Patch in the spring. This week it swapped out the previous mapping tool, Google Maps, for an OpenStreetMap-based solution. Business Insider suggests is further evidence that AOL management is not that interested in t...Read more

Mark Cattini to Head OnDemand Social Media Firm Awareness, Inc

Mark Cattini will take over as CEO at Awareness Inc., based in Waltham, MA. Most recently Cattini was president of marketing services at Pitney Bowes, though most in the geo industry know him as longtime president and CEO of MapInfo. - Mass High T...Read more

NY State GIS Consultant Promotes Snowmobiling and her Business

Linda Rockwood owns Mohawk Valley GIS (in Herkimer, NY where my car needed attention last spring) and in concert with the local snowmobile organizations has moved the old dated, regional paper snowmobile maps online. The online app, The New York Stat...Read more

Tuscany's Open Source GIS Evolves

Officials of the Tuscany region (Italy) have published a new version of its GIS website built on SagaDB (Sistema di Accesso Georeferenziato alle Banche Dati). The development effort began back in 2001and originally used GRASS. The latest version,...Read more

Toronto Data Sharing: The Rest of the Story

I saw on Twitter earlier this week that Toronto had made some of its data available for download. Torontoist attended the Toronto Innovation Showcase where the announcement was made. The report describes the data, its limitiaatons and focuses on the ...Read more

St. Joseph County Election Maps Confuse Voters

The maps (a series of PDFs) had shaded and non-shaded areas and dots noting voting locations. Many residents looked at the maps and ended up at the wrong location. At least one voter could not vote because by the time he was at the correct location, ...Read more